Bluest Flame - Lene Russell

He never stopped loving her. He just failed her where it mattered most.

Sloane Mercer knows how to survive a hostile room.

As one of the sharpest voices in sports media, she has built a career on asking hard questions, keeping her composure, and never letting powerful men decide who she gets to be. But when a professional scandal drags her private life into public view, the one place that should have felt safe-her marriage-becomes the one place she can no longer trust.

Rowan West is hockey's golden man: disciplined, admired, impossible under pressure. He loves his wife with a devotion that has never been in doubt.

That was never the problem.

The problem is that loving her was not the same as standing beside her when it mattered most.

Now Sloane is done making herself smaller for anyone, including the husband who broke her trust while trying to protect her. As her career explodes into something bigger than either of them expected, Rowan is forced to face the truth: he may still be the love of her life, but love alone will not bring her back.

Not this time.

To get a second chance at the woman he never stopped loving, Rowan will have to do more than want her. He will have to earn her. In public. In private. In every ordinary moment where marriage is either rebuilt or lost for good.

But the closer they get to the life they almost destroyed, the more dangerous it becomes to remember how good they once were together-and how badly they still want each other now.

A scorching second-chance hockey romance about marriage in crisis, shattered trust, public fallout, and choosing love again with full knowledge of what it costs